FBI Director Christopher Wray says COVID most likely emerged from a lab. (Credit: Fox News)
Posted on 02/28/2023 8:46:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
FBI Director Christopher Wray says COVID most likely emerged from a lab. (Credit: Fox News)
Days after a bombshell report was dropped by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) which concluded that the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly admitted that his agency agrees.
That doesn’t mean there’s consensus in the Biden Administration, however, even though we’re three years into the pandemic. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Monday that despite DOE’s report, there’s still “not been a definitive conclusion.” It’s probably in a lot of people’s best interests that that point is never reached.
A coalition of 18 agencies and organizations make up the U.S. Intelligence Community, but they can’t decide on the origins of a novel coronavirus that evolved from bats and was first discovered near a Chinese biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) lab that studies bat viruses? Hmm.
We’ll start with Wray, who appeared on Fox News with “Special Report” host Brett Baier on Tuesday:
🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the origin of COVID was likely the result of a laboratory leak in China pic.twitter.com/ducPWduotG
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 28, 2023
Although the FBI’s position on this theory dates back to October 2021, it’s the first time the director has publicly acknowledged it:
The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.
That assessment will likely further strain our relationship with the Chinese, who have accused the US of politicizing the issue. Wray’s next sentence will make them even angrier:
I will just make the observation that the Chinese government seems to me has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here … and that’s unfortunate for everybody.
Meanwhile, Kirby is not convinced by the report from Energy, sounding a little defensive in a press briefing Monday:
Top Biden official John Kirby: “There’s not a consensus right now in the US govt on how COVID started”
They’re still covering for China.
How stupid do they think we are?pic.twitter.com/iKR5FrKxnI— Lidia Curanaj (@LidiaNews) February 27, 2023
“The intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at this,” Kirby said. “There’s not been a definitive conclusion, so it’s difficult for me to say — nor should I feel like I should have to defend press reporting about a possible preliminary indication here. What the president wants is facts.”
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan also wasn’t swayed by the report:
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says he "can't confirm or deny" an intelligence report from the Department of Energy, which concludes the coronavirus pandemic was likely the result of a Chinese laboratory leak. pic.twitter.com/HunpkrSYEL
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 26, 2023
“Right now, there is not a definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question,” Sullivan told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. “Some elements of the intelligence community have reached conclusions on one side, some on the other. A number of them have said they just don’t have enough information to be sure.”
Republicans heading the House Oversight Committee are demanding answers. Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) wrote Monday:
Uncovering the truth about the origins of COVID-19 is vital to U.S. national security, critical to the prevention of future pandemics, and will bring some semblance of closure to the families of those who lost loved ones during the pandemic.
Fox News reports that getting that answer is going to be very difficult because the intelligence agencies’ opinions are all over the map:
The National Intelligence Council as well as four other government agencies assess at “low confidence” that COVID-19 originated as a result of natural transmission from an infected animal, but the CIA and other government agencies remain undecided.
Perhaps if the nation’s media and our own government hadn’t spent the entire pandemic censoring and canceling anyone who dared to question the “wet market” origin theory of the virus, we’d be further along in this investigation—and closer to the truth.
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Naw man..pfft...everyone knows it came from a skid row bum eating a bat in a wet market in Wuhan. /s
On a lighter note, here's a hilarious video by John Stewart (not a fan) that makes Wray’s comments today even more idiotic.
Oh, look. The actual ruler of America has seen fit to let the truth come out. That’s actually pretty significant.
I’m guess there is something conclusive pending so folks are trying to do some CYA and get ahead of the news.
If so-called SARS-CoV-2 virus nonsexist, there’s no lab leak, no virus originated from Wuhan, it's all scaremongering like other virus hoax ie H1N1, Zika, HIV, Ebola, etc. There's no so-called human pathogenic virus that ever been isolated nor purified nor any ever satisfied the Koch's Postulate or River's Postulate to prove any virus can cause disease to human or animals.
A lab the Trump administration was using as a contractor for their gain of function research. Yes, that's correct. Trump's administration re-instated the gain of function research that led to the virus. Then, he never stopped gain of function afterward. To this day, he won't even mention the words "gain of function."
I’m still trying to figure out what DOE was doing investigating a health issue.
But, I guess I should not complain?
Because they have the some of the highest of high-tech labs in the world with clean rooms and equipment designed to work with things on a nuclear scale.
Because they have the some of the highest of high-tech labs in the world with clean rooms and equipment designed to work with things on a nuclear scale.
Well, I know that. But how can the agency just run off on an investigation outside their purview? Or would someone outside have to get them involved?
Say... (and this is pure speculation), Jake Sullivan wants to hang this on the Chinese, and figures the medical people won't give him the straight poop, so he calls up somebody high up in the DOE?
Plus even with the tech capability, you’d have to have a virologist with pretty good chops to evaluate the lab generated information.
“Now It’s FBI Director Chris Wray Who Says COVID ‘Most Likely’ Came From a Lab”
Interesting timing...just as their ‘Ukraine Project’ is collapsing and just after they made Russia and China BEST BUDDIES...
It is the march to a world war and it is planned.
The want way more of the proles dead than what they got from covid and the clot shot.
The idea is to create so much turmoil and strife as to be able to create sweeping changes to then install the “New World Older.” The stage is being set, this may be a false start but either way it is a dry run or the real alignment for a global government takeover.
Confirmation bias. Why start believing this liar now?
Body language of this asshat is no different than the back stabbing liars of the KGB. Unreal that he’s still there.
Trump, was as smart as possible with regard to a president, but for some odd reason, tried to appease the GOP elites by appointing one after another loser.
Now you have POMPEO and others thinking of running against him.
The media still believes that Trump is washed up, and that there’s no interest in covering him.
WRONG!
The support for him is huge and across the board. You have a lot of liberals who would vote for him, but never admit it.
Anyone see De Santis on Waters? No doubt, the push is on from McConnell, Bush, Romney, Ryan et al for him to run. You could tell he was very cautious with regard to trashing Trump.
Is it now safe to use the term “Kung Flu” instead of the word “Coof”
"Why, you had that power all along."
Yup, and some brainwashed members of my volunteer group insinuated I was Rays Sis. Then, they canceled me.
1) I never found out why they thought I was Ray’s Sis. BTW, who is Ray’s Sis?
2) I counter canceled the brainwashed dopes who canceled me. Mebe they will figure out the gubmint is lying to them and the gubmint has twisted the definition of the word “Science”
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